《The Dream Maker》 S1·E9 (01:54)
HSK 7
zhè jiàn shì qíng yǒu fēng xiǎn wǒ yě shì bù dé yǐ cái chū cǐ xià cè
这件事情有风险 我也是不得已 才出此下策
“This situation carries risks. I had no choice.”
《The Dream Maker》
S1·E9
TIMECODE: 01:54
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THE DIALOGUE REEL
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN
gù gōng yán zhòng chāo biāo
雇工严重超标
“Severely overstaffed.”
zhè jiàn shì qíng yǒu fēng xiǎn wǒ yě shì bù dé yǐ cái chū cǐ xià cè
CURRENT FOCUS
这件事情有风险 我 也是 不得已 才 出此下策
“This situation carries risks. I had no choice.”
[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN
nǐ kàn zhè me duō àn lì
你看 这么多案例
“Look. So many precedents.”
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Scene:
Workplace
Function:
SELF DEFENSE
Tone:
PLEADING
Emotion:
HELPLESSNESS
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“I know it is risky, but do not blame me because circumstances forced my hand.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Self-Deprecating Defense (以退为进)
By openly admitting one's strategy is a 'suboptimal plan' (下策), the speaker shows humility and disarms opponents, making it harder for others to harshly criticize them.
INTENT TAGS:
#justification
#self_defense
#preempting_criticism
#admission
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
不得已
SPOKEN CHUNK
to have no choice / to act out of sheer necessity
A common idiom-like phrase used to emphasize that one acted against one's own ideal will due to external constraints.
出此下策
SPOKEN CHUNK
to resort to this poor strategy / to adopt this clumsy expedient
A classic set phrase used self-deprecatingly when explaining a desperate or suboptimal solution.
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3 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS:
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES
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Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
《The Dream Maker》 S1·E9 (01:54) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus